I built this, we just reversed the set up so that the adults were on the outside can swim in and out as needed. Two successful fry batches so far, the pond sails love it too. Thank you for this video!
My mom has been making stuff with these items for 50+ years. I even made stuff as a kid. This is such a great idea. So simple. So cheap. Brilliant. Ty for all the education co-op provides!
For everyone looking to purchase this mesh: It is called plastic canvas. The number represents holes per inch. You can thank me by taking some of my guppies. PLEASE.
I am a beginner guppy breeder and this is by far the best method I've seen while researching. it allows you to breed without using a bunch of tanks and you don't have to stress the females my netting them multiple time during her pregnancy. thanks for the video ☺
+Aquarium Co-Op No problem Corey. You put out great videos with great advice backed by years of experience. As long as you keep posting videos, i will be watching and sharing them. Take care bud
I just made this last week because I could see that my guppies where pregnant. I placed it in my 60 gallon tank and hoped for the best. Well, today I saw one giving birth and even though only one little guy (that I can see) has made his way into the trap, it worked! He's gone in and out of it a little bit but already knows he's safe in there. thanks for the great tutorial!
Plastic canvas is great! I use the cylinders for guppy breeding, separating small flowerhorns, and separating clownfish for pairing, the smaller holed stuff is great for dividers with some report cover edging as an edge brace
I legit just brought home two mollies and they were both pregnant!! I’m so overwhelmed lmao so many guppies they’re sooooo cute!!!!!!! Idk what to do!!!! Everything is closed right now!!! I can’t even get these supplies!
as an avid knitter crocheter and crafter i find it hilarious to watch you work with yarn ^.^ but this is a good idea. would they still be able to get in/out with java moss growing on it?
+Aquarium Co-Op have you tried it with all out side so they can go in for safety? That's what I want to try I just want to make sure it works that way so I don't loose babies.
No matter which way you do it, you can lose some babies, cause not all will learn to go through the mesh. That being said it does raise quite a few of them so it's one of the best methods.
This gave me an idea for using this as a kind of permanent kind of decoration. Would maybe a 3 inch tall pill box with a cap on the top and bottom covered in java moss and pile stones make a good enough fry shelter? I want to make a good hiding spot for fry but I also want to keep it in a display tank. Guess it's a try and see thing :)
Great idea. My goodeid trio had some fry yesterday (biggest I've seen in person) and I think my male may have eaten a few during the night they were born. I might try this since my other female is still pregnant.
#5 mesh can be ordered online from Michael's Crafts. On a different note, did you get your mesh numbers correct? It seemed confusing. Great idea though. I am trying it with #5 mesh. #5 means there are 5 holes per inch. #7 means 7 holes per inch.
BTW, great videos..... I just found and subscribed to your channel a couple weeks ago. Love all of your work. I've got a couple saltwater systems in my house but I started with freshies. I even still keep a 20 gal long planted freshie tank.
I raise guppies for feeder fish as food for my baby common snapping turtle. And before you comment " oh that's cruel you can just feed him pellets" you try taking pills every day for your daily meal. If they do it in the wild. It's safe for them.
+DankMeme Co. Why would that be cruel? snapping turtles lure fish and are made to eat prey like that. Great source of natural calcium for shell growth etc.
I too keep things like that and I'm really glad to hear another hobbyist do it the right way! This is the snowflake generation and I guess nature's design is cruel and everything should be eating genetically modified fake foods? Good for you man!!
Thank you so much for this video! It's the first time I've ever seen a mesh cage like that; what a cool idea! :D Definitely gonna be utilizing this soon. I witnessed GuppyDad grabbing a baby today and that is... not ideal. XD
Can someone answer my question. If using #7 canvas (1/7 inch hole size, 3.6mm square), will the newborn molly/platy fry be able to swim through? I want to build a refuge for the fry cuz my molly fish has been pregnant for months, it must been something wrong. Thanks.
I know this is a really old video, but I'd like to know if it's okay if the acrylic yarn is starting to smell. I actually took it out while it was wet and it has been smelling funky for hours. The breeder fry trap works really well! Thanks! Would appreciate any kind of feedback.
Can you put a list of the supplies in the description including the gauges of the needles and the size of the mesh holes and the sheet size need for the mesh square and circle? I'm currently using 10 gallon tanks, would one of these finished fry savers fit in a ten?
+heatherwanderer777 The way I built mine it would stick out of the top of a 10 gallon. But you'd just cut it down. I'll add the supplies list to the description.
once the eggs are laid in the spawning mop, do you just move the mop to the outside of the cage and then add a new mop inside? or what are the mops on the outside for?
+SevernRunAquatics I'm not sure honestly as I edit video outside of youtube. I'm sure there has got to be a video tutorial of it if you were to type it into youtube.
I use wondershare filmora, that being said I don't do any time lapse stuff. I generally just skip around as I tend to skip time lapse stuff myself in videos.
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Do you have some special treatment for female after she gave birth ? I have only one adult male and one female. And the male is not letting her go all the time. usually chase her and never let her to rest. So my wife I put the male into breeding cage for a while. Is that harmful for the male? Does the female need to rest for a couple of days after giving birth ?
Being so big how would the fry know to swim out of the canvas? Won't a lot of them stay inside and get eaten? I mean, in a breeder box, the fry are dropped into a safe compartment. In this setup, don't they have a high chance staying inside with the parents and get eaten?
+Aquarium Co-Op thanks! I have a tank with three baby marbles crayfish (the true clone kind), about an inch long, and im looking into putting endler guppies in with them. As they grow up theyll be the worst for my plants, but they arent hunters like clarkiis so well see how that works out :) Do you have any experience with crayfish? The clones seem to go for a lot and produce nice quantities of offspring that can be fed to oscars,... Clarkiis are beautiful, but since someone kind of dumped the marbles on me i guess im stuck till my hubby allows a second tank
why not do a video series, how we used to do it in the old day days. be interesting. a lot out of the seasoned vintage fish hobbists do not use you tube, so it be cool to bring some of the tried and true techniques together in a series
+1deaver --- I've had several people suggest I do some youtube videos because I am learning the new stuff but I left the hobby in 1987 because of a job that required constant moves. So I only know the old way. That's why I love guys like Corey. I learn so much. Some of the local folk and a couple of UA-cam guys said I should do youtube, so I'm going to. I started setting it up as oldschoolfishguy. It will be much smaller volume than Corey and you'll still want to be on this one and some others.
+Anal “Negro” Avocado you could also use java moss with this. People use the same screen to make moss walls in their tanks. Just tie moss to the cage instead of the spawning mops, and put big bunches in the cage and around it.
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I built this, we just reversed the set up so that the adults were on the outside can swim in and out as needed. Two successful fry batches so far, the pond sails love it too. Thank you for this video!
My mom has been making stuff with these items for 50+ years.
I even made stuff as a kid.
This is such a great idea. So simple. So cheap. Brilliant. Ty for all the education co-op provides!
For everyone looking to purchase this mesh: It is called plastic canvas. The number represents holes per inch. You can thank me by taking some of my guppies. PLEASE.
I am a beginner guppy breeder and this is by far the best method I've seen while researching. it allows you to breed without using a bunch of tanks and you don't have to stress the females my netting them multiple time during her pregnancy. thanks for the video ☺
you can use zip ties to connect the sides
Little plastic tie wraps that tighten make it so much easier than sewing with a need btw! Hope that helps. Great vid as always 👌
The big needles are for sewing up jumpers after you’ve knitted all the pieces. LOL. Really good project for keeping fry safe.
Thank you for helping me complete this breeding box - I already had crafting materials. It works very well.
Genius level fishkeeping!
this just gave me great idea with the round one on my diy canister filter am going to make trays to hold media with it great video.
Good Idea, I hadn't thought about that :)
Thank you for shared this video, it is very good
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Hey could a hamster wheel be used as a breeding trap for guppies?
I call it the bottom of my breeding trap lol right on that is a great idea. I may need to make one of those one day. Great video thumbs up
+AQUA NUT Thanks for watching and supporting my channel.
+Aquarium Co-Op No problem Corey. You put out great videos with great advice backed by years of experience. As long as you keep posting videos, i will be watching and sharing them. Take care bud
I appreciate the shares :) Eventually I've got to run out of ideas. But it gives me more reason to think up new ones :P
If you ever run out of ideas join a forum like crazy cichlid keepers or oscar fish lover. Lots of ideas will start popping in your head. Works for me.
Very helpful information
Thank you so much for the diy fry help !!!
I just made this last week because I could see that my guppies where pregnant. I placed it in my 60 gallon tank and hoped for the best. Well, today I saw one giving birth and even though only one little guy (that I can see) has made his way into the trap, it worked! He's gone in and out of it a little bit but already knows he's safe in there. thanks for the great tutorial!
Thanks for sharing this video 👍👍
I'm searching from many days finally I find it 😊
Great how to video. Thanks for sharing.
Plastic canvas is great! I use the cylinders for guppy breeding, separating small flowerhorns, and separating clownfish for pairing, the smaller holed stuff is great for dividers with some report cover edging as an edge brace
+Ajaxtrippy26 Yeah I've seen the dividers as well, never used em myself though. Thanks for sharing.
I love this idea . I might have to build this for some of my guppies to see what kind of traits I'm getting out of some of my females .
I use the winkler knot for spawning bears! Awesome idea Cory
Thanks for a great video. I was going to divide the tank with the mesh, but this is a better idea.
I wonder if you could add/weave plant weights into the bottom
I legit just brought home two mollies and they were both pregnant!! I’m so overwhelmed lmao so many guppies they’re sooooo cute!!!!!!! Idk what to do!!!! Everything is closed right now!!! I can’t even get these supplies!
Would that hold platie fry?
Hi, whats the brand of the mesh? Where to buy it?
This is perfect for me and so simple. Thanks.
Glad to hear it. I try to offer practical solutions.
I learned a lot. Thank you.
as an avid knitter crocheter and crafter i find it hilarious to watch you work with yarn ^.^ but this is a good idea. would they still be able to get in/out with java moss growing on it?
They should be able to get in and out with Java moss.
Very helpful!!
Thanks this helps soooooo much my fry will appreciate it :)
Awesome idea! Going to be making this today!
thenks
Thank you for making this DIY!!!!!!! I'm about to start my tank, so helpful!
+Kaye Nicole Glad it could help ya :)
+Aquarium Co-Op have you tried it with all out side so they can go in for safety? That's what I want to try I just want to make sure it works that way so I don't loose babies.
No matter which way you do it, you can lose some babies, cause not all will learn to go through the mesh. That being said it does raise quite a few of them so it's one of the best methods.
+Aquarium Co-Op okay, thank you (:
Loved this for sure
Cool idea!! Thanks
Omg bro this video is sooooo help full no lie
Great 👍👍 great video 👍👍
You can also easily get higher by putting some rocks Under it .
You might be able to keep the bottom piece more secure with the use of a blanket stitch, that way it would be easier to transfer it to the next take
Made easy. Very smart.
+Kyle Bucklew I like easy :)
This gave me an idea for using this as a kind of permanent kind of decoration. Would maybe a 3 inch tall pill box with a cap on the top and bottom covered in java moss and pile stones make a good enough fry shelter? I want to make a good hiding spot for fry but I also want to keep it in a display tank. Guess it's a try and see thing :)
well that don't seem so tough now, thanks
I would have did it with fishing line so it don't be seen, but I like the idea about the spawning mop for the babies.
Great video thanks
Hope it helps you get many fry :)
Great idea 💡
thanks a lot 😉
This is very creative. God bless, in Jesus name.
It's very helpful
You give me a great idea for fish breeding net 😁👍
Great idea. My goodeid trio had some fry yesterday (biggest I've seen in person) and I think my male may have eaten a few during the night they were born. I might try this since my other female is still pregnant.
+Agr414 Yeah, I love breeding goodeids. In fact I'll have to pester Greg Sage for some more Trout Goodeids :)
+Aquarium Co-Op Those new C. Lateralis he just got in look awesome.
Yeah, The black band on the fins, pretty much just going to improve on his already red lateralis.
Just made one! Thanks!
Thanks!
I think its measured 'holes per inch' so the bigger number equals smaller holes.
#5 mesh can be ordered online from Michael's Crafts. On a different note, did you get your mesh numbers correct? It seemed confusing. Great idea though. I am trying it with #5 mesh. #5 means there are 5 holes per inch. #7 means 7 holes per inch.
The videos and the fish room have come a long way in two years...
thumbs up! another good vid Cory!
Excellent ... imma try this .
+Justin quiles jr. It is awesome.
Try using small plastic Zip Ties
Nice net for the people that cant afford the plastic breeder containers at $12.00 here in PerthWA
This is such a great idea! Gonna try it for endlers.
BTW, great videos..... I just found and subscribed to your channel a couple weeks ago. Love all of your work. I've got a couple saltwater systems in my house but I started with freshies. I even still keep a 20 gal long planted freshie tank.
Nice, glad you found us :)
I wonder if I can just use a giant two litre, or jug with holes.
I raise guppies for feeder fish as food for my baby common snapping turtle. And before you comment " oh that's cruel you can just feed him pellets" you try taking pills every day for your daily meal. If they do it in the wild. It's safe for them.
+DankMeme Co. Why would that be cruel? snapping turtles lure fish and are made to eat prey like that. Great source of natural calcium for shell growth etc.
I too keep things like that and I'm really glad to hear another hobbyist do it the right way! This is the snowflake generation and I guess nature's design is cruel and everything should be eating genetically modified fake foods? Good for you man!!
Where did you get the supplies from Cory?
Could you do the same thing with different levels? So the divide would be horizontal?
+Michael Skurnik Yeah, that's on my to do list as far as filming is showing a different type of trap.
Thank you so much for this video! It's the first time I've ever seen a mesh cage like that; what a cool idea! :D Definitely gonna be utilizing this soon. I witnessed GuppyDad grabbing a baby today and that is... not ideal. XD
Yeah, gotta keep em safe!
I feel like this video could have been like 3 minutes, but it was very entertaining haha
Can someone answer my question.
If using #7 canvas (1/7 inch hole size, 3.6mm square), will the newborn molly/platy fry be able to swim through?
I want to build a refuge for the fry cuz my molly fish has been pregnant for months, it must been something wrong.
Thanks.
I just brought home a molly and it gave birth!! I’m so overwhelmed lol
I know this is a really old video, but I'd like to know if it's okay if the acrylic yarn is starting to smell. I actually took it out while it was wet and it has been smelling funky for hours. The breeder fry trap works really well! Thanks! Would appreciate any kind of feedback.
there is probably trapped algae, poo, fish food in the fibers of the yarn. should be fine.
Yay, you replied! Thank you
great video!!!
+Jj Thanks. Hopefully it'll help ya breed some fish down the road :)
Can you put a list of the supplies in the description including the gauges of the needles and the size of the mesh holes and the sheet size need for the mesh square and circle?
I'm currently using 10 gallon tanks, would one of these finished fry savers fit in a ten?
+heatherwanderer777 The way I built mine it would stick out of the top of a 10 gallon. But you'd just cut it down. I'll add the supplies list to the description.
+Aquarium Co-Op awesome, thanks so much! :D
Nice bro ...very helpful
SOOOOOOO SMART
Hope it helps ya.
once the eggs are laid in the spawning mop, do you just move the mop to the outside of the cage and then add a new mop inside? or what are the mops on the outside for?
There are no eggs. Guppys live birth.
Great video! Anyone know where I can get the mesh from in the UK please?
Hi, when you mentioned needlemash 5 or 7, what is actually the square gap measurement in cm? Thanks.
I think the number 5 and 7 are the amount of squares per inch
Where did you buy the mesh? I need to know!!! It's so cool!!!
craft stores, yarn stores, wal mart, fabric stores are the places to look
Ask for the needlepoint section, they're usually next to the needlepoint canvases.
I like to lay it together and loop over
My guppies would totally just jump this, but like this idea a lot
Great idea! Will #7 mesh work? That's the largest count I can find locally.
I'm not sure without looking at it, but as long as the gry can get through, yep.
Plzzz tell me how much cm are the little gaps 🐟🐠
does this work with platys?
what is your fry servival rate as in how meany get eatten doing it this way
I don't count fry born, just what I sell out of the tank. Typically each female drops between 50 and 100 and I always have more than I can sell.
is it normal for some of my 2 day old fry to be black? (born to black moskaw)
guppy parents trap :D
did you dye the mop to make it green?
No, this acrylic yarn comes from the store green.
where do you buy the mesh?
can we use it for platei and molly
If you made it larger, yes.
At Walmart Michael s u can find it
I can't find that 5 count mesh. I have search the internet and came up empty handed. Can anyone help point me in right direction.
Hey Cory do you know how to use the UA-cam video manager time lapse feature? I'm try to time lapse so sections of video but not sure how it works.
+SevernRunAquatics I'm not sure honestly as I edit video outside of youtube. I'm sure there has got to be a video tutorial of it if you were to type it into youtube.
+Aquarium Co-Op what do you use if you don't mind my asking
I use wondershare filmora, that being said I don't do any time lapse stuff. I generally just skip around as I tend to skip time lapse stuff myself in videos.
we are a company culture leader of breeding and export of aquatics plants, fish, snails and reptiles Guinea conkry West Africa if you are interested please contact us by email: globalfishaquarium@gmail.com
Do you have some special treatment for female after she gave birth ? I have only one adult male and one female. And the male is not letting her go all the time. usually chase her and never let her to rest. So my wife I put the male into breeding cage for a while. Is that harmful for the male? Does the female need to rest for a couple of days after giving birth ?
yusuf saraç umm.. for 1 male you need atleast 2-3 females. no wonder he is chaseing her.
Yes exacly
It is good to let the female rest for a while before putting her back with the male guppy cause male guppies are crazy about female guppies!
Do that work with guppie of are the adults to small
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Being so big how would the fry know to swim out of the canvas? Won't a lot of them stay inside and get eaten? I mean, in a breeder box, the fry are dropped into a safe compartment. In this setup, don't they have a high chance staying inside with the parents and get eaten?
Fry seek cover, that is why the mops are on the outside of the trap.
If youd like to have a "prettier" tank, could you just put one piece to divide the tank, instead of a cage?
You could but it's typically not as effective. You'd ant to do like 1/4 space for adults 3/4 not adults and no plants in the adults space.
+Aquarium Co-Op thanks! I have a tank with three baby marbles crayfish (the true clone kind), about an inch long, and im looking into putting endler guppies in with them. As they grow up theyll be the worst for my plants, but they arent hunters like clarkiis so well see how that works out :)
Do you have any experience with crayfish? The clones seem to go for a lot and produce nice quantities of offspring that can be fed to oscars,... Clarkiis are beautiful, but since someone kind of dumped the marbles on me i guess im stuck till my hubby allows a second tank
The self cloning crayfish are so easy to breed and mass produce. Locally they were being sold as feeders until they became illegal.
In the old days, we just bought a mop and took the head off. Not sure they even make those mops anymore. lol
why not do a video series, how we used to do it in the old day days. be interesting. a lot out of the seasoned vintage fish hobbists do not use you tube, so it be cool to bring some of the tried and true techniques together in a series
+1deaver I love finding old tricks. I like to read lots of old aquarium books to spark new ideas.
+Aquarium Co-Op I love my old books. Especially the Herbert Axelrod books
+1deaver --- I've had several people suggest I do some youtube videos because I am learning the new stuff but I left the hobby in 1987 because of a job that required constant moves. So I only know the old way. That's why I love guys like Corey. I learn so much. Some of the local folk and a couple of UA-cam guys said I should do youtube, so I'm going to. I started setting it up as oldschoolfishguy. It will be much smaller volume than Corey and you'll still want to be on this one and some others.
let us know when you get that going.
1:30 lol
Why don't you do it the old way? Just fill your tank with Java moss lol
+Anal “Negro” Avocado you could also use java moss with this. People use the same screen to make moss walls in their tanks. Just tie moss to the cage instead of the spawning mops, and put big bunches in the cage and around it.
I like your username
Through my experiences no matter the cover and how well you feed the grown ups I've always had mass casualties! Just my experience not a fact.
where can I buy that